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New research indicates that in axSpA patients, disease activity and physical function are more critical to global functioning than structural damage or spinal mobility. A shift in treatment focus may be necessary for optimal patient care.

Explore how thought control has been utilized in groundbreaking technology to enable a paralyzed man to walk naturally again, unveiling a new frontier in neuroscience and potentially revolutionizing paralysis treatment.

Leukodystrophies, deficiency-related metabolic diseases, genetic and acquired toxic/metabolic causes, and mitochondrial diseases were identified as the genetic and metabolic disorders of adulthood producing spinal cord signal changes. A number of adult metabolic and genetic illnesses that cause spinal cord atrophy without signal changes have also been discovered. The classification based on spinal MRI results is also offered, along with suggestions for the diagnostic process and alternative diagnoses.